In 'The Anxious Generation', Jonathan Haidt examines the sudden decline in the mental health of adolescents starting in the early 2010s. He attributes this decline to the shift from a 'play-based childhood' to a 'phone-based childhood', highlighting mechanisms such as sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, and perfectionism that interfere with children’s social and neurological development. Haidt proposes four simple rules to address this issue: no smartphones before high school, no social media before age 16, phone-free schools, and more opportunities for independence, free play, and responsibility. The book offers a clear call to action for parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments to restore a more humane childhood and end the epidemic of mental illness among youth.
In today's episode, White House faith adviser and heretical prosperity gospel "preacher" Paula White is trending yet again, this time for encouraging her followers to "honor God" during Passover ... by donating upwards of $1,000 to her ministry. We have a biblical response to Paula and her message. And the kids are not all right since the new generation has absolutely fried their dopamine receptors with technology. We're not talking about teenagers; children as young as five are being handed tablets by their parents, who simply don't want to do the hard things. Lastly, we have a special guest on to discuss a new, disturbing trend on TikTok called SkinnyTok and how it is disturbingly close to the body-shaming and glorification of eating disorders that were so popular in the early 2000s.
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Timecodes:
(01:05) Brief Share the Arrows update
(02:55) Paula White is asking for money… again
(18:45) Kids are getting addicted to technology
(39:08) Letting kids do hard things
(45:35) ‘SkinnyTok’ trend on TikTok
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Links:
The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Kids Zero to Eight: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/2025-common-sense-census-web-2.pdf
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